by Tania Crosse
In Tavistock, local historian Gerry Woodcock put me in touch with Christine Barron, Sylvia Viggars and Ann Yeo who all worked at Tavistock Hospital at the period either as nursing or administrative staff. What a wonderful morning we spent together, ladies!
In more general terms, I must mention my good friend Sir Michael Willatts for his information on vehicles of the time, Auntie Joan Broomfield for her memories of army life in Egypt and the National Army Museum for details of the National Service system.
Last but by no means least, a huge thank you to retired physician Marshall Barr of the Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre for all his detailed descriptions of medical procedures and drugs of the time.
My sincere gratitude goes to each and every one of you!
About the Author
TANIA CROSSE was born in London but at a very young age she moved to Surrey, where her love of the countryside took root. She always enjoyed reading and has composed stories ever since she could hold a pen. After studying French Literature at university, she devoted twenty years to bringing up her three children. But her passion for writing never left her and, side by side with her in-depth historical research, she began to pen her novels in earnest as her family grew up, focusing on Tavistock and the surrounding area of Dartmoor from Victorian times to the 1950s. Tania and her husband live partly in Berkshire and partly at their cottage on Dartmoor, where Tania retreats to write and absorb the atmosphere of the places that inspire her.
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Hope at Holly Cottage
HOPE AT HOLLY COTTAGE
She took her gabardine raincoat from the hallstand. Put her head round the kitchen door. So many memories. Her eyes stopped on the lino where her mum had died. No, she mustn’t think like that. She picked up the case and her umbrella, and let herself out of the front door. A new life. She mustn’t look back.
Plymouth, 1954. The future seems rosy for schoolgirl Anna Millington as she studies for teacher training college. But Anna’s life isn’t all that it appears. Her family has hidden a cruel secret since the worst night of the Plymouth Blitz back in 1941, a night Anna remembers all too well as a small child cowering in a bomb shelter. Now the devastating consequences threaten to erupt again in tragedy, compelling Anna to abandon her friends and career hopes and flee for her life to nearby Dartmoor.
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Copyright © 2009 by TANIA CROSSE
First published in Great Britain by Allison & Busby in 2009.
This ebook edition first published by Allison & Busby in 2013.
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ISBN 978–0–7490–1432–2
